5/30/2023 0 Comments The gormenghast trilogy review![]() ![]() In fact, the Gormenghast trilogy doesn’t offer much in terms of plot and could probably be summarised in a single paragraph. Each character has their own chapter and while discovering a place filled with people who follow complex, ancient rituals, unwilling to modernise or evolve, the reader is dunked into an atmosphere of gothic novels resembling Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, where the setting becomes more important than the plot. It opens with a series of chapters introducing the titular crumbling castle, Gormenghast, and its many residents. We enter the world of Gormenghast as unwelcome intruders in Titus Groan. Back then, it left doctors baffled, today we know he was afflicted by dementia with Lewy bodies, a neurodegenerative illness, dismantling a brilliant mind while still far too young. Twisting his mind with visual hallucinations and paranoid delusions, it rendered his words incoherent and his illustrations crude and nightmarish. He planned to write more but alas, an illness struck him down, gradually stripping him off his artistic abilities. ![]() ![]() In 1946 Titus Groan was published, followed by Gormenghast in 1950 and finally Titus Alone in 1959. He began working on the Gormenghast novels while in the army. Gormenghast Illustrations courtesy of Qess-sie for Three Crows Magazine© ![]()
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